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India's 50-year-old space research programme made history by launching 104 satellites in orbit at one go. At Sriharikota near Chennai on Wednesday morning, scientists at ISRO improved their own previous record of 20 by a leap after a six-month preparation period for this moment.

Three months after the Centre's move to demonetise high-value currencies and the release of the newly-minted ₹2,000 notes, counterfeit versions of the latter are believed to be entering India via Bangladesh. The latest bid to smuggle fake notes was foiled by the Border Security Force as they intercepted a stack of counterfeit currency on 14 February.

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In its ruling against the late J Jayalilthaa, VK Sasikala and two others, the Supreme Court has clarified that public servants would not be able to claim "gifts" as legal sources of income. Even disclosing such "presents" to the income tax department won't give the former any legitimacy, the apex court further qualified.

A new marriage bill presented in the Lok Sabha seeks to be a limit to the number of guests who can be invited to a wedding feast as also the number of dishes to be served to them. It proposes to make those spending over ₹5 lakhs contribute towards the marriage of underprivileged girls.

Opinion

If you're one of those who thinks the Donald Trump administration in the US is going to be good for India's strategic interest, you may be in for several rude shocks. Here's a reality check from Srinath Raghavan in the Hindustan Times about the lasting damages it could inflict on India in the long term.

How should education policy in India draw its inspiration from the Constitution? Anurag Behar explains in Mint the correlation between the two, as a commitment to constitutional values demanded that education help do away with caste from society.

Demonetisation was an exercise to do away with corruption from India rather than a profound shift in its monetary policy, writes Dipankar Dasgupta in The Telegraph. While its short-term gains may be easy to point out, the effect it will have on the Indian economy will be for a much longer time and not necessarily a positive one.